The Sciences

Najin (R) and her daughter Fatou, the last two northern white rhino females, graze near their enclosure at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia National Park, Kenya March 31, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/Files

IVF Posited as Last Straw to Save Nearly Extinct Northern White Rhino

Sarah Iqbal 20/07/2018

Where conventional conservation methods have failed to protect a...

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Why Are We Going Over the Moon on ISRO and Helium-3 All Over Again?

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/07/2018

If we're going to get excited about ISRO mining...

Elon Musk. Credit: Reuters

The Spectacle That Is Elon Musk Coming Undone

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/07/2018

Over the weekend, the billionaire entrepreneur called one of...

A herd of elephants feeding near a tea estate. Credit: Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan

Elephants Living Around Humans Should Be More Stressed, Right? Well…

Janaki Lenin 17/07/2018

A new study suggests that if people chase and...

Research on coral reefs published by scientists at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has been found to have plagiarised content, some of it wrong and misleading.

Joint Director of Zoological Survey Plagiarised Book, Published False Data

Nithyanand Rao 17/07/2018

His and his colleagues' actions imperil coral research within...

A simulated signal of black hole production and decay at the LHC. Credit: CERN/ATLAS

Beauty Is Truth, Truth Is Beauty, and Other Lies of Physics

Sabine Hossenfelder 15/07/2018

In the last 40 years, while there has been...

An illustration of a banded krait, found primarily in the Indian subcontinent. Credit: biodivlibrary/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

To Get Ahead on the Fight Against Snakebite, We Must See Beyond the Big Four

Rohini Krishnamurthy 13/07/2018

India has about 60 species of venomous snakes ,and...